Business Ecosystem: How a Scientific and Commercial Activity Survive Turbulence

Michelle Harbour () and Jacques-Bernard Gauthier ()
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Michelle Harbour: UQO - Université du Québec en Outaouais

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Abstract: The communication of scientific knowledge through the publications of scientific periodicals is organized in a complex and dynamic business ecosystem where convergent and divergent objectives coexist. The purpose of this paper is to study the cooperation strategies that ensure the maintenance and development of this business ecosystem. Our results show the coexistence of three cooperation strategies: homeostatic cooperation, pressure cooperation and adaptation cooperation. Our study provides two main contributions. First, we now have a new perspective the strategic dynamics of this business ecosystem. We have seen that the publication of scientific periodicals is an expanding community business ecosystem, through the active role of the actors in the different strata of this ecosystem. We also found that these actors can act on different cooperation strategies simultaneously. Second, the identification of three types of cooperation strategies mobilized by stakeholders is also an important contribution to the literature on business ecosystems and to the literature on cooperation strategies.

Keywords: Business ecosystem; cooperation strategies; publishing; scientific periodicals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-02-15
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